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The authentic Norwegian Viking ship Valhalla will make its way down Nordic Drive at 4 p.m. Friday as part of Petersburg's Little Norway Festival that runs Thursday through Sunday and celebrates Norway's Constitution Day. Games, activities, dinners, a melodrama, concerts and a Sunday barbeque will be just a few of the events taking place this weekend. A complete schedule appears in this newspaper....
The Vikings capped off their season in Southeast with a championship title, after winning two games at Region V in Juneau last week. Coming off the high of homecoming weekend wins over Wrangell, Petersburg was matched up with them again straight into the tournament. "We had two hard-fought games the week before," noted coach Rick Brock. The Vikings took an early lead in the March 8 game, with Stewart Conn scoring nine of the team's 12 points in the first quarter. Wrangell was held to four, but...
Four Kake women reported overdue KAKE – On Feb. 11, at 8:44 a.m., Alaska State Troopers received a report of four adult female Kake residents overdue in two separate vehicles out a logging road outside of Kake. The females were identified as Falen Mills, 29, Jocelyn McKinnon-Crowley, 24, Jordana Grant, 27, and Julianne Brown, 31. The females were last seen on Feb. 10 at 11:45 p.m., and they were not intending on remaining out overnight. A search team was assembled and responded to their anticipated location. At 9:39 a.m., the females were locat...
The Lady Vikings’ basketball team traveled to Anchorage for the Rally of The Regions Tourney and ended up going 3-1. Head coach Dino Brock said the team performed well all weekend and he had no complaints about dropping a game. “I was very happy with the first games of the year,” Brock said. “I thought we got exactly what we wanted. We saw improvement from every player, from the first game to the last game.” The team also impressed coach Brock with its improvement on offense and defense as the weekend progressed. The junior varsity team show...
Head coach Rick Brock liked playing four games against unfamiliar teams with different styles last weekend in Anchorage, and the Vikings won all their games by double digits. The non-conference games gave the Vikings a warm up for Haines this weekend, where the boys will continue to contribute as a team and show their depth. “One of our strengths this year will be the fact, that most times, we can have five guys on the floor that have the capability of scoring,” he said. “That makes it difficult for other teams to guard us.” The play of juni...
Buddy Stelmach, Ethan File and Nathaniel Lenhard represented PHS wrestling for the final time last weekend at the state tournament in Anchorage. Stelmach earned a second place finish, and File and Lenhard both fought their way to fifth. The three seniors also helped bring home the 2016 State 2A team title and the Sportsmanship Award. For Stelmach, it may not have been the ideal outcome. But after battling a knee injury all season the standout, 4-time Region Champ, showed why he's been such a fie...
The PHS boys basketball team had enough players last weekend to have two squads participate in the JV Little Norway tournament held in Petersburg. Assistant coach Jeb Phillips has been helping coach locally for three years because he enjoys working with different groups of kids. And this year's group of freshmen is impressing their coach so far with their play and presence. "Most of these kids are little dribblers throughout their careers so, it's pretty fun," he said. "And we have more freshmen...
PHS wrestlers were successful at the regional tournament in Sitka last weekend however they came up short in their goal to win the 2A team title. Petersburg came in second place to the Wrangell Wolves by less than six team points. "Fortunately, we wrestled well and gained a lot of respect from opposing wrestlers and coaches," says head coach Robert Schwartz. "Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to beat Wrangell for the title." Buddy Stelmach and Teagan Schwartz won individual region five...
The PHS wrestling team took the short trip to Wrangell last weekend to participate in the Tom Sims Invitational. According to coach Dan van Swearingen, the Vikings left a couple wrestlers home and some teams failed to show. "It was a small tournament because the weather was terrible," he said. "We didn't have half the teams, but it was still a good weekend." Seven teams participated in a round robin on Friday and bracket tournament the following day. On Saturday, Nathaniel Lenhard was seeded...
PHS took six wrestlers to the Anchorage Christian Schools Invitational or ACS last weekend which is a highlight of the season for many athletes statewide. The Vikings at the tournament were aggressive on the mats, making coach Dan van Swearingen smile. “They wrestled well, we were pretty good on our feet,” he says. “We were tough and we were physical.” Buddy Stelmach is at the top of his weight class when it comes to performing, and van Swearingen says the difference between the third best wrestler at 126-pounds and the first is very small....
Over 20 people assembled at the SONS last Thursday evening for a presentation and Q&A with representatives of the Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Office (TLO). The representatives stressed their desire for a land exchange to pass via federal legislation as it would allow the Trust to bypass logging on contentious land in Petersburg and Ketchikan. Residents who attended were more concerned about what would happen if the land exchange does not go through and the TLO moves forward with plans to log areas in close proximity to residences on Mitkof...
Petersburg Borough clerk Debbie Thompson gave the following Borough Manager’s Report during the assembly meeting on Oct. 18. Representatives of the Rasmuson Foundation and Alaska Community Foundation were able to visit the Children’s Center last week and tour the new classrooms. Next week Sandy Dixson will be attending the Fall Preparedness Conference and Local Emergency Planning Committee Association meeting in Anchorage. Attendance is Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHS&EM) grant requirements. Dixson and Fire Chi...
Topi Karikorpi is this year's inbound Rotary Long Term Exchange student and he's been enjoying island life for two months now. He comes from a small village in Finland, and says he likes the size of Petersburg. "I live in a very little village in Finland," he says. "I live in a forest, literally." Other exchange students from his country went to Florida and Brazil, but Karikorpi, 18, is glad he was chosen to live in Alaska. "I want to learn more about the culture of America and meet new people,"...
Petersburg cross country had perfect conditions at state last weekend in Anchorage, and the girls team continued their pack mentality en route to finish fifth as a team. The meet was competitive, and head coach Tom Thompson said the talent keeps improving in Alaska. “I’d say the runners this year overall, in the state, outperformed the runners the last couple years,” he said. “The bar has been raised. The top runner for girls this year is a freshman, pretty impressive.” Thompson isn’t worried about fitting in the trend. He said there’s ple...
The Petersburg High School cross country teams took part in the Region V meet last weekend in Sitka, and the girls team ran away with the team championship. The girls will send seven runners to state in Anchorage this weekend, and they’ll be joined by one member of the boys team. “The girls did awesome,” coach Debby Eddy said. “They were incredible, they ran like a pack.” Kayleigh Eddy put up a personal record (PR) barely edging out teammate Shyla Cook for second place. Less than 30 seconds after Cook crossed the finish line, Melanie Chase fini... Full story
PHS cross country took on a hill-filled course in Juneau last weekend, and the girls came in second to Juneau-Douglas by one point. Head coach Tom Thompson said the finish, with the exception of regions last season, was the best he's seen a girls team have in his five years of coaching. The girls had five runners in the top 15, and Thompson said they looked "powerful." Kayleigh Eddy improved on her time from last year on the course, en route to a fifth place finish. Standout freshman Melanie... Full story
PETERSBURG – Southeast Alaska biomass experts believe that the low price of oil shouldn’t put wood heat projects on the chopping block. When the price of diesel remained higher than $4 a gallon, wood-fired boilers were sold as a relatively cheap heating option for public buildings in Southeast. The campaign to promote wood heat has been successful in Southeast – especially in the Ketchikan and Prince of Wales Island areas – as all levels of government, tribal governments and private enterprise invest millions of dollars into biomass project...
PHS cross country had an exceptional met in Metlakatla last weekend, with nine runners earning personal records (PR). The girls team placed first, edging Ketchikan by one point for the victory, and the boys took second as a team. Senior Kayleigh Eddy ran a PR for the first time since her sophomore year. She was closely followed by Erin Pfundt and Meghyn Parker, who placed third and seventh. Pfundt and Parker also put up PR”s. Madisyn Parker crossed the finish line next in 14th place and seconds later Eva Lenhard earned 16th place and a PR. F...
The PHS swim teams traveled to Sitka last weekend for the first meet of the year. The meet offered two days of events and showed the strongest events for the Vikings so far would be anything involving freestyle, according to head coach Andy Carlisle. "We had everybody do pretty good, especially in our freestyle races," he said. "Our other races weren't as good as the freestyle ones, but they were still pretty good overall." On Friday, the girls team took third place behind Juneau-Douglas and... Full story
Petersburg hosted around 200 cross country runners last weekend for a sunny installment of the Jack Eddy Invitational. The boys ended up taking fifth as a team and the girls earned second place coming in behind a tough Juneau-Douglas squad. "The weather was beautiful and the kids ran excellent," said assistant coach Debby Eddy. The PHS girls had nine runners in the field and the top six times were clocked within two minutes of each other. Kayleigh Eddy crossed the finish line first, taking...
The Petersburg High School cross country teams traveled to Ketchikan last weekend to open the 2016 season. The boys and girls performed remarkably well to kick off the year, with the boys earning a sixth place finish and the girls taking third overall. Head coach Tom Thompson says the finish for the girls team isn't shocking, but he did have some questions about how they would bounce back after losing two impactful runners from last year's squad. Yet, they still had five girls in the top 12... Full story
The local Rotary club is known for sending students on its year-long exchange program to study abroad, but this summer a PHS student took part in the club's short-term program. Gillian Wittstock spent four weeks with a family in Germany and the two girls who hosted her there recently traveled to Petersburg to stay with the Wittstocks. Gillian is the first local student to participate in the program. She says getting to know Svea and Vilja Zahnke in Germany really made it easy for everyone to... Full story
The Petersburg High School swim team is busy getting ready for the upcoming season, and the numbers are better than normal, according to head coach Andy Carlisle. “We had 14 in the water yesterday,’’ he said on Tuesday. “They look pretty good, we’ve been hitting it hard already and they have been responding pretty well.’’ The team has senior leadership returning and four freshmen new to the squad this year. Although the majority of the events in swimming are individual, team members often end up pushing each other. “We have a lot of good pos... Full story
Molly Patricia Judge Parks was born in Ketchikan, Alaska and graduated from Petersburg High School in May of 2016. In her short, sweet time on this earth, she grew to be a strong, kind, beautiful and determined young woman. Molly was a passionate soul who held dearly to her beliefs. She believed in the important things in life; like make-up, hair die, yoga pants, and of course, well-structured eye brows. A surprise to her parents, Molly was a real athlete. From the time she was small she loved... Full story
